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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
a month ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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